Is this the start of the Iraqi civil war?

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Secular, and socialist kurds blown up by religious fanatics. By attacking the kurds are the fundamentalists trying to keep the US bogged down in Iraq past the summer, the end of this year, forever? Can Iraq survive as a united country in the face of suvch destabilising influencces?

― Ed (dali), Monday, 2 February 2004 03:04 (twenty years ago) link

Meanwhile in Iran, things are coming to a head.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 2 February 2004 03:07 (twenty years ago) link

It definitely looks like a targeted attack at least:

Mohammed Ihsan, minister for human rights for the Kurdish regional government, said the dead included senior figures in the provincial government - Irbil Governor Akram Mintik, Deputy Prime Minister Sami Abdul Rahman, Minister of Council of Ministers Affairs Shawkat Sheik Yazdin and Agriculture Minister Saad Abdullah.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 February 2004 03:08 (twenty years ago) link

You're welcome, Iraq!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 2 February 2004 04:10 (twenty years ago) link

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 2 February 2004 04:45 (twenty years ago) link

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